With more than 2,000,000 copies in print, here is state-of-the-art advice you can trust from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the organization that represents the nation’s finest pediatricians. The second edition of Your Baby’s First Year is the essential guide to all aspects of infant care. Here, in an easy-to-use format, you’ll find: • A month-to-month guide to your baby’s first year that lets you know what to expect in terms of growth, behavior, and development • A complete health encyclopedia, plus detailed instructions for coping with emergency medical situations • Information about vaccine safety and schedules for immunizations and health-care visits • Complete information on breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, and introducing solids • Suggestions for choosing quality child care–and ways to ease your baby’s introduction to a sitter • Safety points for grandparents to keep in mind, both inside and outside the home • Poison prevention, infant CPR and choking instruction, general first-aid care • Safety checks for home and car, including a car safety seat shopping guide Your Baby’s First Year is the indispensable guide to infant care for all parents who want to provide the very best care for their baby–from a source they can safely trust.

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This authoritative and invaluable fully revised edition from the organization representing the nation's finest pediatricians brings state-of-the-art answers to all your medical and parenting concerns. Here is sound, reassuring advice on baby care that covers everything from preparing for childbirth to family issues such as adoption and stepfamilies to age-appropriate toys. Here too is an indispensable guide to recognizing and solving common health problems during the first year, plus detailed instructions for coping with emergency medical situations. Comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date, Your Baby's First Year includes:a month-by-month guide to your baby's first year that lets you know what to expect in terms of growth, behavior, and development a complete health encyclopedia covering injuries, illnesses, and other disabilities safety checks for home, outdoors, and cars, with crucial new information on air bag safety and infant car seats coverage of breastfeeding techniques and benefits guidelines for choosing a child-care provider, safety points for grandparents to keep in mind, poison prevention and much, much more Warmly-written and accessible, yet encyclopedic in scope, this sourcebook guides parents through all aspects of caring for infants. This is advice that parents can trust, from the nation's leading specialists in pediatric medicine.

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Dr. Steven P. Shelov, M.D., M.S., F.A.A.P. is Professor of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Chairman of Pediatrics at Maimonides Medical Center and Lutheran Medical Center and Vice President of the Infants' and Childrens' Hospital of Brooklyn. He is the Editor-in-Chief of several of the parent publications for the AAP including Caring For Your Baby and Young Child, The First Year Of Life, and A Guide to Child Symptoms. Dr. Shelov pioneered and developed these series of books. In 2002, Dr. Shelov was presented with the Lifetime Achievement in Education Award by the American Academy of Pediatrics, its singular highest award for pediatric education. The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 57,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and pediatric specialists dedicated to the health, safety, and well-being of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. AAP books with Bantam include Caring for Your Baby and Young Child Birth to Five, Caring for Your School-Age Child Ages 5 to 12, Caring for Your Teenager, Guide to Toilet Training, and New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding.

Book Description:Bantam, 2004. Book Condition: New. Brand New, Unread Copy in Perfect Condition. A+ Customer Service! Summary: With more than 2,000,000 copies in print, here is state-of-the-art advice you can trust from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the organization that represents the nation's finest pediatricians. The second edition of Your Baby's First Year is the essential guide to all aspects of infant care. Here, in an easy-to-use format, you'll find: A month-to-month guide to your baby's first year that lets you know what to expect in terms of growth, behavior, and development A complete health encyclopedia, plus detailed instructions for coping with emergency medical situations Information about vaccine safety and schedules for immunizations and health-care visits Complete information on breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, and introducing solids Suggestions for choosing quality child careand ways to ease your baby's introduction to a sitter Safety points for grandparents to keep in mind, both inside and outside the home Poison prevention, infant CPR and choking instruction, general first-aid care Safety checks for home and car, including a car safety seat shopping guide Your Baby's First Year is the indispensable guide to infant care for all parents who want to provide the very best care for their babyfrom a source they can safely trust. Bookseller Inventory # ABE_book_new_0553587943